WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 21 - Monday

[the_rck]

Poll #15252

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Today I

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planned
1 (20.0%)

researched
1 (20.0%)

wrote
2 (40.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (20.0%)

did something else
2 (40.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 5.20 Median: 5 Std. Dev 1.17

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		2 (40.0%)
5		1 (20.0%)
6		1 (20.0%)
7		1 (20.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

When you write fanfic, do you try to preserve the tone and style of the canon as you write? Why or why not?

For me, it varies. When I'm writing for an exchange, I tend to try to stick closely to the canonical tone (style is something else again. I write the way I write). I figure that, in those cases, people are requesting a fandom because there's something they love about it. That seems to me to call for sticking close to canon. When I'm writing on my own, I venture farther. I think that sometimes one can get a deeper view of a fandom by doing something unexpected with it.

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[linaewen]

I'm hoping this week to be back on my regular schedule, which should allow me time to plan in writing time. Due to much upheaval in my schedule, I am not getting any writing done.

I stick as closely as possible to canonical tone and style when I am writing in a Tolkien-related fandom. That's actually become my style, so when I write something more modern, I have to work hard at sounding less "Tolkien".